Military and Nonmilitary TBI Associations with Hearing Loss and Self-Reported Hearing Difficulty among Active-Duty Service Members and Veterans.

Objective: Identify associations between self-reported history of military and nonmilitary traumatic brain injury (TBI) on hearing loss and hearing difficulty from the Noise Outcomes in Servicemembers Epidemiology (NOISE) study.

Study Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Multi-institutional tertiary referral centers.

Tinnitus Screener: Short-Term Test-Retest Reliability.

Purpose: The Tinnitus Screener was introduced in 2015 as a four-item algorithmic instrument to assess the temporal characteristics of a person's reported tinnitus. The Tinnitus Screener was then revised as a six-item version to include a new temporal category and to capture tinnitus duration (acute < 6 months vs. chronic ≥ 6 months).

Oddball paradigm complexity in multi-token auditory evoked potentials.

We developed and tested a series of novel and increasingly complex multi-token electrophysiology paradigms for evoking the auditory P3 response. The primary goal was to evaluate the degree to which more complex discrimination tasks and listening environments - which are more likely to engage the types of neural processing used in real-world speech-in-noise situations - could still evoke a robust P3 response. If so, this opens the possibility of such a paradigm making up part of the toolkit for a brain-behavioral approach to improve understanding of speech processing.

Associations between medical conditions and auditory dysfunction in US Veterans.

Objective: To examine associations between non-otologic medical conditions and auditory dysfunction.

Design: Cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the Noise Outcomes in Service members Epidemiology (NOISE) study. Logistic regression was used to estimate the association between medical conditions (0, 1, and 2 or more conditions) and auditory dysfunction (hearing loss pure tone average ≥20 dB HL and tinnitus), adjusting for key confounders including noise exposure.

Heterogeneity in Vision, Hand Function, Cognition, and Health Literacy Among Older Veterans: Impacts, Outcomes, and Clinical Recommendations for First-Time Hearing Aid Users.

Background: Age-related changes (both normal and pathological), and health literacy are relevant to audiological practice. Changes associated with the musculoskeletal, vascular, and nervous systems drive manual, visual, and cognitive function. These in turn affect the capabilities required for effective hearing aid (HA) skill acquisition, use, and management.